A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Getting ready for next Sunday’s 1969 marathon on the Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel, I ran across a pointer to Lenny Kaye’s original review of Live Dead in Rolling Stone, published in January of 1970. I like his opening paragraph: Live Dead explains why the Dead are one of the best performing bands in America, … Read more
Many listeners have asked for a listing of the 12/21/08 Sirius XM GD Channel Dark Star marathon. Here it is! (All times Eastern) 00:05 Dark Star 10/26/89 00:32 Dark Star 7/13/84 00:49 Dark Star – David Grisman Quintet, from Stolen Roses 01:01 Dark Star 4/8/72 01:33 Dark Star – David Murray Octet, from Dark Star: … Read more
I just read this copy for Sirius XM announcements. This New Year’s Eve, Bob Weir and and Phil Lesh and their bands are joining together in San Francisco for an extraordinary collaboration. Can’t make it? No problem … you can hear Ratdog, Phil and Friends, and the midnight festivities right here on the Grateful Dead Channel starting … Read more
I don’t have a list of the broadcast in order, and I’m not sure if all of these pieces made it into the final playlist, but here is a list of the selections I submitted for our Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel Dark Star marathon: 2/27/1969 Fillmore West (Live Dead) 4/27/1969 Minneapolis (Dick’s Picks 26) … Read more
Starting at midnight Eastern Time tonight, and continuing until midnight tomorrow night, it’s the Dark Star marathon on the Grateful Dead Channel (Sirius 32, XM 57). Here are some program notes, adapted from spoken intros by Gary Lambert and David Gans: 4/8/72 Empire Pool, Wembley, England: I never met a Dark Star I didn’t like. … Read more
Sunday, December 21st, marks the Winter Solstice – the darkest day of the year – an event that the Grateful Dead Channel will celebrate with a 24-hour Dark Star marathon. That’s right: a full day (and long night) of programming dominated by the Grateful Dead’s deepest, bravest quest into the musical unknown. We’ll feature great … Read more
In honor of the new Road Trips release, today’s Tales from the Golden Road is all about the Dead at Madison Square Garden. We’ll have Dan Levy, who wrote the liner notes, in the studio with us. Give us a call at 888-897-4748 and tell us about your experiences seeing the Dead at MSG! Tales … Read more
David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and the daily host of Today in Grateful Dead History on SIRIUS’ Grateful Dead channel, will host an hour-long premiere preview special highlighting the much-anticipated Egypt 1978 release. Celebrating the Dead’s legendary performance at the foot of the Gizeh pyramids, this extraordinary release is not available to the public until … Read more
Here are the days and times (all Eastern) for the Sirius broadcasts of the 10/14/86 Steve Marcus interview with Jerry Garcia: Saturday 8/2 3pm Sunday 8/3 8pm Tuesday 8/5 1am Thursday 8/7 3pm Saturday 8/9 10am
“The doctors said they’d never seen anybody as sick as me who wasn’t dead.” – Jerry Garcia 10/14/86, interviewed by Steve Marcus. This interview will be broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio at least once between August 1 and August 9. Probably more than once. Here’s a bit of audio from that interview.